Today In Cold War History
1948 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 58 relating to International Court of Justice is adopted.
1950 – Indonesia joins the United Nations.
1958 – France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
1960 – Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser’s temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT’s alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d’état in Chile. The ITT building in New York City, was bombed by the Weather Underground for alleged involvement in the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, which overthrew the democratically elected socialist government in Chile
1975 : An armed robbery goes wrong at a Spaghetti House restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, The robbers then take nine staff hostage and demand a plane and safe passage to Jamaica.
1987 : The US Navy has captured an Iranian ship caught laying mines in the Persian Gulf and released the 26 surviving crewman to Iranian officials and have now blown up the ship ensuring it will not be able to lay further mines in the area.

My goal with this blog is to offend everyone in the world at least once with my words… so no one has a reason to have a heightened sense of themselves. We are all ignorant, we are all found wanting, we are all bad people sometimes.